Quotes About Universal

Yet most of the Indian subjects—even the five-year-old children—said that these actions were wrong, universally wrong, and unalterably wrong. Indian practices related to food, sex, clothing, and gender relations were almost always judged to be moral issues, not social conventions, and there were few differences between the adults and children within each city.

One of the most universal pieces of advice from across cultures and eras it that we are all hypocrites, and in our condemnation of other's hypocrisy we only compound our own.

Kant, like Plato, wanted to discover the timeless, changeless form of the Good. He believed that morality had to be the same for all rational creatures, regardless of their cultural or individual proclivities.

Kant provided an abstract rule from which (he claimed) all other valid moral rules could be derived. He called it the categorical (or unconditional) imperative: "Act only according to that maxim whereby you can at the same time will that it should become a universal law."22

Genes are selfish,3 selfish genes create people with various mental modules, and some of these mental modules make us strategically altruistic, not reliably or universally altruistic.

In the next three chapters I'll catalogue the moral intuitions, showing exactly what else there is beyond harm and fairness. I'll show how a small set of innate and universal moral foundations can be used to construct a great variety of moral matrices. I'll offer tools you can use to understand moral arguments emanating from matrices that are not your own.

Except that death collected everyone. Death is like that. Relentlessly efficient.

As any psychiatrist will tell you, it is a fact of life, a psychological home truth, that every human being from Mother Teresa to Jack the Ripper operates from the same basic needs, using the same basic defenses, and accessing the same basic pool of emotions as every other human being. Deep down below the surface, we all want to be safe, we all want to be loved, and we all want to be respected. (15)

The definition of music used in this course will be as follows: music is the universal language of emotions communicated through intelligently ordered sounds consisting of rhythm and pitch. (The first half of this definition was arrived at through

There are indeed moral universals — the Hebrew Bible calls them 'the covenant with Noah' and they form the basis of modern codes of human rights. But they exist to create space for cultural and religious difference…

The greatest challenge of any society is how to contain the universal, inevitable phenomenon of envy, the desire to have what belongs to someone else. Envy lies at the heart of violence.

By the first century, a complete system of universal, compulsory education was in place, an achievement the Talmud attributes to Yehoshua b. Gamla (Bava Batra 21a), the first of its kind anywhere in the world.

One way or another, the alphabet created a possibility that never existed before, namely of a society of mass, even universal, literacy. With only twenty-two symbols, it could be taught, in a relatively short time, to everyone. We see evidence of this at many places in Tanakh, the Hebrew Bible. Isaiah says "All your children shall be taught of the Lord and great shall be the peace of your children" (Isaiah 54:13), implying universal education.

Functionally, a priest in the ancient world was one who could read and write. A kingdom of priests is therefore a nation of universal literacy.

Torah – God's law and teaching – was not a code written by a distant king, to be imposed by force. Nor was it an esoteric mystery understood by only a scholarly elite. It was to be available to, and intelligible by, everyone.

It is impossible that anything so natural, so necessary, and so universal as death, should ever have been designed by providence as an evil to mankind.

The point is, people become possessive of their grief, almost proud of it. They want to believe it's like no one else's. But it is. It's exactly like everybody else's. Grief is like a shark. It's been around forever, and in that time there's been just about no evolution. You know why?" "Why?" "Because it's perfect just the way it is.

Quien no ama a nadie en especial no puede amar a todo el mundo, no puede conocer el amor universal. Solo cuando has aprendido a conocer, a cuidar, a hacerte responsable y a amar tus árboles cercanos, solo entonces puedes amar los bosques.

Bueno. Pero eso le pasa a todo el mundo... - Sí. Y por eso el mundo no es más que un manicomio sin verja - remató Cienfuegos.

Limbaji grinned widely and reached for a stone. "But this is what different religions mean," he said, placing the stone on the ground. "God is for all men, he is always the same. There is only one. And all men finally go to the same God." He drew lines toward the stone in the dust. "But there are different roads.

que hemos llamado "espacio" es realmente una presencia, porque lo que hay es un potencial continuo, unificado, inteligente e inagotable que aquí y allá se precipita a sí mismo como lo que llamamos materia.

La Verdad no es palabras, afirmaciones, libros o enseñanzas. La Verdad es un fluir universal que sólo puede ser atrapado vagamente en la red de la conciencia humana.

It is the universal corruption and profligacy of the times, which taking its rise amongst the rich and luxurious has now extended its baneful influence and spread its destructive poison through the whole body of the people.

May God make his Word find a hearing in all the world.